By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2013
***There’s been much ado this week about the announcement by Coca-Cola boss Muhtar Kent (left) that it’s going to put calorie counts on its fizzy drinks and stop advertising to children under 12 (a virtual impossibility in the online age unless you stop advertising altogether). And stop sponsoring music, which Coke clearly isn’t going to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alex Bogusky, Billington Cartmell, british telecom, bskyb, campaign palace, coca-cola, decisive, desperados, france, Paul Fishlock, relaunch, sports rights war, Tony Granger, tv, virgin media, wrigleys 5 gum
By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2013
BSkyB’s head of advertising sales Nick Milligan and his eight year-old daughter Emily were killed in a speedboat accident off Padstow in Cornwall on Sunday. Four other members of his family were injured in the accident, two seriously. “Everyone at Sky is deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic accident involving the Milligan [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, channel 5, family, fatal accident.padstow, Nick Milligan, sky media, speedboat accident
By Stephen Foster on January 24, 2013
Football saved Rupert Murdoch’s (part-owned) BSkyB from an early grave and now the ever-active media mogul (in his ninth decade) is hoping it can extend the life-support system for his British newspapers. His News Corporation company News International has secured the rights to show Premier League ‘near-live’ clips (as they call them) from all its [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged barcelona, bskyb, manchester united, Mike Darcey, mobile rights, near-live clips, news corporation, News International, Premier League, real madrid, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2012
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fox, ipad newspaper, may space, news corporation, news of the world, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, the daily, Tom Mockridge
By Staff on November 20, 2012
It looks like it’s giving it a damn good go with news emerging that the former UK state-owned telephone supplier is planning two new pay sports channels for football and rugby plus a third for one-off pay-per-view matches, an offer that could blow a whole in BSkyB’s Sky sports business model (and, indeed, BT’s own). [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged bskyb, BT, espn, Jeremy Darroch, Premier League, sky, sky sports
By Staff on July 24, 2012
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career death for them, whatever the outcome of a trial. And, frankly, things look pretty grim for [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Prudence MacLeod, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Express, the mirror, Tony Blair
By Stephen Foster on July 2, 2012
I used to think that the biggest threat to the fantastic ‘Mad Men’ TV series about Madison Avenue types in the all-conquering, drinking and bonking 1960′s was the onset of hippiedom (or the bourgeois version thereof). Can you imagine Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s sharp-suited Don Draper (right) in bell-bottom jeans with a droopy Frank Zappa [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, Media, News | Tagged adscam, amc, BBC, bskyb, Don Draper, Dustin Hoffman, George Parker, luck, mad men, sky atlantic
By Stephen Foster on June 27, 2012
Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – Fox, Star in Asia and, presumably, its various Sky TV businesses in a bigger, supposedly [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, company split, fox, news corporation, ofcom, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012
The Leveson Inquiry entertainment goes on, with Tony Blair appearing earlier this week and being engagingly Tony-ish (the bastard), education secretary Michael Gove (a former employee of Rupert Murdoch as a journalist at the The Times) annoying his lordship with his view that a free press means that you have to accept the rough with [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BBC, bbc producer, bskyb, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt, Jeremy Paxman, John Humphrys, leveson inquiry, Michael Gove, news corporation, Nick Robinson, Norman Smith, Robert Jay QC, Rod Liddle, the times, today programme, Tony Blair, tory pr man
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